The historic 24-room home with 12 fireplaces and a ballroom is part of the Hagen History Center and will host Victorian Holidays with free admission Dec. 2-5.
A sword belonging to Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry will be one of the more high-profile artifacts on display when the Hagen History Center unveils nine new exhibits this coming summer.
Visitors will see the sword featured in an introductory gallery during a planned campus-wide public reopening of the center, at 356 W. Sixth St., on July 17-18.
Perry and Erie merchant ship captain Daniel Dobbins helped oversee the construction of a U.S. Naval fleet, including the original Brig Niagara, in the spring and summer of 1813 in Presque Isle Bay.
At the Battle of Lake Erie on Sept. 10, 1813, near Put-in-Bay, Ohio, Perry commanded a nine-vessel American fleet to victory over a six-ship British flotilla.
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